Word: urbanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lark in the trees by the edge of the lake in the morning mist, and watch the forsythia push forth in glory. And for the evening there's time to push to the metropolis for the theater or a spot of late dancing, just a touch of urban revelry to season the gentle time...
...available experience. Mr. Gibson "Death in the House" gives with observant pathos a boy's emotions when his brother is dangerously ill with typhoid. Mr. Symonds contributes a pleasant piece of domestic shock in a brief reminiscence of a disturbing grandfather. Mr. Rowley begins a nervous tale of urban frustration in the idiom of Josephine Herbst...
...examination period draws out to a lingering death at the end of the week, the slaughtered host of undergraduates will depart for mountain or urban resorts for a few days, nursing the profound desire never to look a blue book in the face again. But the blue books turned in during the last fortnight represent the distillation of four months of work, plus the soul-searing heat of cramming. Yet in a number of courses the chance to see a blue book after it has been written is altogether denied, or made so hard that the exploratory genius...
...discussion of the Social Security Act, Benjamin M. Selekman, lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems, summarizes the Act, and considers the workability of its various provisions. Particular emphasis is laid on the financing problems that occur under the Act, and provision for care of the unemployed...
...Bridges quadruplets last week quintuplets were born (dead) to an unnamed North Carolina woman confined in Duke Hospital at Durham, and quadruplets (living) to a Madame Yves Le Louarer in Brittany, France. Because no one has any rule for telling where the multiple-birth lightning will strike, only large urban communities are medically prepared for it. No one expected a prodigious childbirth in the Bridges log cabin last week. When it did occur, Dr. Speidel, who delivered a dead set of quadruplets 30 years ago, imperturbably anointed the four Bridges children with hog lard, wrapped them in towels and rags...